Fight btw BCC & WJ students after game @ 8:30 Friday night

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Anonymous wrote:I can assure you that the parents of the victims intend to pursue getting the perpetrators charged.

You can assure us, how?

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Anonymous wrote:Well that's a bad look. People already fear and mistrust black teenagers. Kicking kids in the head when they're down should be an attempted murder charge. That BCC kid needs to be in prison.

The kid kicking is WHITE.

No

YES. He is white.

Or Hispanic. Hard to tell and it should not matter anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:“what triggered it?

He was wearing a WJ shirt and was spotted by a crowd of BCC students, some of whom were wearing ski masks, looking for WJ students. Senseless.

Are you making this assumption or did someone who was there tell you what happened?

And yes it is weird to be wearing a mask in 90 degree weather.

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Anonymous wrote:Well that's a bad look. People already fear and mistrust black teenagers. Kicking kids in the head when they're down should be an attempted murder charge. That BCC kid needs to be in prison.

The kid kicking is WHITE.

No

YES. He is white.

Or Hispanic. Hard to tell and it should not matter anyway.

There is no such thing as white OR Hispanic. Hispanic/Latino people can be of any race.

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I am not convinced that parents are primarily to blame. Several have pointed the finger at lackadaisical parenting skills as a reason for the melee last night. These students are up against a culture that promotes entitlement and disrespect for authority that has been fueled by the pandemic-related events of 2020-2022.

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Anonymous wrote:Wasn’t there also a fights last fall, around the Bethesda metro, between these 2 schools after a football game?

2021 email from principals:

“ Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School Students taunted Walter Johnson High School students and vandalized the bus transporting Walter Johnson players as they attempted to return to their home campus. Following this, there were reports of an altercation involving multiple students in downtown Bethesda.”

And this is from 2022.

https://bcctattler.org/956/news/battling-barons-and-wildcats-stay-true-to-their-name/

These kids don’t know how to behave. Law enforcement should have been in the area in anticipation of a fight.

Thank you for posting. This is inexcusable - the police should have been stationed along the route to metro. This is unbelievable. Now I understand why a pp stated that it was predictable.

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Anonymous wrote:Go to the source. Look at any blockbuster movie it’s filled with fighting. You become what you consume. Normalizing gun culture. And the people involved as heroes… What are you expect! This is a huge influence. Now combine it with TikTok, impulsivity control, and bad parenting situations.

Again, these are all parenting issues.

On DCUM, everything is a parenting issue - specifically, other people's bad parenting.

If not parenting, what? You don't think how people parent matters?

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https://www.axios.com/2022/12/02/how-the-pandemic-aged-teen-brains

The shutdown had physiological effects on students' brains as well that should be recognized.

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Anonymous wrote:I was at the game and security seemed very good. Student fans were in dedicated sections at opposite ends of the stadium. WJ student fans left just before game ended, and BCC student fans asked to stay after for 15 mins and performance of (terrific) student dance group. Plenty of security on site.

I disagree and was also at the game. I left slightly early along with many kids. It was pretty clear that MoCo needed much more police presence on the street by that point.

Not enough police anymore to provide necessary security.

??? I saw a group of at least four or five police officers and two patrol cars hanging out at The Streetery at Cordell. Nothing was going on. Who is deploying the officers?

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Anonymous wrote:I am not convinced that parents are primarily to blame. Several have pointed the finger at lackadaisical parenting skills as a reason for the melee last night. These students are up against a culture that promotes entitlement and disrespect for authority that has been fueled by the pandemic-related events of 2020-2022.

When you allow school administrators to neglect their responsibilities to enforce effective consequences, you will most definitely only get more violence. What do you expect?

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Year after year, games with BCC always end up with brawls. Always with BCC. Could be BCC and Whitman, BCC and Walter Johnson-- always violence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am not convinced that parents are primarily to blame. Several have pointed the finger at lackadaisical parenting skills as a reason for the melee last night. These students are up against a culture that promotes entitlement and disrespect for authority that has been fueled by the pandemic-related events of 2020-2022.

A culture of entitlement and disrespect for authority starts at home. This has nothing to do with the pandemic and kids have been back in school for over two years now. Stop blaming the pandemic for bad parenting. Kids don't get this way overnight. This was many years in the doing, prior to covid and they know they can do it as there is no supervision or consequences at home. MCPS should require a parent or legal guardian to attend these games or close them to the public if students cannot behave without that level of supervision. But, even so, this happened off MCPS property so those "kids" were under the supervision of their parents so ultimately the parents failed somewhere and this didn't just happen 3 years ago. Plenty of kids DON'T behave this way and also went through the pandemic.

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Anonymous wrote:I was told that there were police everywhere after the game and they did absolutely nothing to stop this incident. They were standing around watching. That is infuriating. Perhaps they were too busy giving out citations for unregistered dogs. Why is anyone surprised? This is a shame. Also, if these kids are such badasses, maybe they should try out for the football team instead.

No. I find that hard to believe. I look forward to the facts of the case.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not convinced that parents are primarily to blame. Several have pointed the finger at lackadaisical parenting skills as a reason for the melee last night. These students are up against a culture that promotes entitlement and disrespect for authority that has been fueled by the pandemic-related events of 2020-2022.

When you allow school administrators to neglect their responsibilities to enforce effective consequences, you will most definitely only get more violence. What do you expect?

This didn't happen on school property. This happened after the students left. As many issues as I have with MCPS, MCPS is not to blame. The kids behaved on school property. This is parenting and how parents neglect their responsibilities to teach their kids to behave and have consequences. Even if MCPS gave consequences, it needs to be reinforced at home. Good behavior starts young and at home.

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Anonymous wrote:Every WJ/BCC basketball and football game. Just means they'll impose more restrictions going forward.

It's just another strong indicator of MCPS decline when students at these schools act like gang members.

It’s likely because they ARE gang members.

Quite possibly.

Tell me you’ve always lived west of the park without….

Actually, no.

Are you familiar with gang issues in MoCo schools?

Yes. And have done the gang training multiple times.

What gang training and who provides the training? Who receives it?